- Published: 29 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781448163465
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Witches
A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction
- Published: 29 August 2013
- ISBN: 9781448163465
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
Borman provides a fascinating account of the circumstances surrounding the case.
Amanda Foreman, Mail on Sunday
Moving and spirited.
Anne Somerset, Literary Review
A tantalising history... A panoramic survey of the witch craze that swept through Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
John Carey, Sunday Times
Excellent.
Thomas Quinn, Big Issue
Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I’s sex life.
Bella Bathurst, Observer
This is an entertaining piece of research that brings back to life three women who had the misfortune to live during a period that was terrified of the unknown and sought to tame that fear by turning it into a handful of dust.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Telegraph
As a work on the horrific treatment of witches throughout history, in particular the 16th and 17th centuries, it is shocking and illuminating.
Caroline Jowett, Scottish Daily Express
Fascinating history of witchcraft in England… An immensely readable and never less than gripping account of a society in flux and the women who suffered to enable its stability.
Sara Keating, Sunday Business Post
Tracy Borman has written a superb history of the witchcraze in early modern Europe focusing around this one case. Her book is enthralling and accurate… In many respects this is a triumph of popular historical writing.
David Wootton, Guardian
Absorbing.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Weekly Telegraph
This is history at its most disturbing, and yet also most interesting.
Steve Craggs, UK Regional Press
Gripping… Stirring witchcraft, politics and sexual perversity into the cauldron of a superstitious age, Tracy Borman seasons her brew with suggestions of poisoning and the black arts.
Iain Finlayson, The Times
Tracy Borman tells this strange, compelling and ultimately inconclusive story.
Diane Purkiss, Independent
Borman’s enthusiasm and diligence keeps the history in place, while the central story, and the mysteries, lies and obfuscations that surround it, add a flavour of the detective novel.
Michael Noble, Starburst
Spellbinding
Daily Telegraph
The interest here lies in the accurate and plausible portrait of a whole society, from top to bottom… The details are fascinating
Guardian